Artist Talk - Digitale Kunst: Kris De Decker

Kris De Decker
How (not) to build a solar powered internet
Department of DIGITAL ARTS/ Ruth Schnell

We were told that the Internet would “dematerialize” society and decrease energy use. Contrary to this projection, it has become a large and rapidly growing consumer of energy itself. Renewable energy can be part of the solution, but the trend towards growing energy use must also be addressed.

Online via Zoom:
https://dieangewandte-at.zoom.us/j/64830965809

Kris De Decker is the author of Low-tech Magazine, a publication that refuses to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution. Since 2018, Low-tech Magazine runs on a self-hosted, solar powered server. De Decker also wrote for the Demand Centre at Lancaster University (UK), which researches energy demand in relation to social practices, and is the co-founder of the Human Power Plant, an art project that investigates the possibilities of human power production in a modern society.

solar.lowtechmagazine.com
https://www.krisdedecker.org/